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75: The Shape of a Problem in the Wild

The Bootstrapped Founder

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Asking for Help Is a Good Idea

People who complain are looking for consolation and commiseration maybe, but a person asking for help is looking for a more interactive experience. In certain communities, it's perfectly fine to ask for help at any point, but it might be considered a sign of weakness and lack of experience in others. By virtue of having limited knowledge, beginners will ask for help faster and more often because they don't know as much. And that will skew the quantitative distribution of asking for help. Ant you will learn a lot about how solutions in the space can be analyzed by observing how people try to find the root causes of their problems.

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